Ngecha
Subtitle: a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change
By: edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Description: "Ngecha is the study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting."--BOOK JACKET.